That looks like something I would be very interested in, but it only goes up to a 38H and reviews (by people size 10 and 12) say it fits them tightly and just long enough length.
Thanks for the link though - I wish it came in plus sizes, bigger cups, and long-length torsos!

Waist or underbust? Your waist measurement does not matter for bra sizing. Your underbust measurement should be taken on your ribcage, just below the base of your breasts, where your band would sit.

I'm going to deal with UK sizes here, because US sizes are crazy and not standardized. If 31 is your underbust and waist was just a typo, your standing measurement would put you into either a 32F or a 30FF.

However, that's probably not going to fit you (as you found out) because your perpendicular measurement is so much larger. Your perpendicular measurement puts you into a 32K or a 30KK.

Your true size is probably somewhere in between the two. Unfortunately with soft/pendulous breasts (I have them too!) it sometimes takes some trial and error to find your best fitting size. One method that some people have luck with is averaging their standing and bent-over measurements.

Doing that for yours would give you an average measurement (rounding) of 42", putting you somewhere in the 32H/30HH range.

I personally found that my best fitting size was a bit closer to my bent-over measurement than the average of the two (which might mean a 32J/30JJ for you) but others have had different experiences.

I wish it were easier, with less trial and error involved, especially since outside of large cities with high-quality bra stores that carry UK brands in many sizes, it almost always involves online ordering and returns to determine best fit.

Awww, bummer. I was afraid it might be a cut/wire length issue, but was hoping it could be fixed by resizing the cups.

Thanks for letting me know anyway - I do dislike that they are cut so low there, but will order more as I have found no other bras yet that I like nearly as much in my size!

Guess I'll be going with the 90K next time and calling it good...though if anyone from Ewa Michalak happens to be reading this, a higher cut and higher wires on the armpit sides would be so appreciated! (Not crazy high though - some brands seem to want to embed themselves into my center armpit...urgh, such a fine balancing act between high enough, but not too high).

First of all, many of us are shocked when we find out our correct size...mainly because of the common perception that bras exist up to DD or DDD cups and that those are huge and anything beyond that must be fake...and ridiculously oversized fake at that. Common perception is just so wrong.

Secondly, is it your waist that measures 34 inches or your underbust? You should be measuring directly under your breasts at the underbust area (on the ribcage) not lower down at your waist. You should also measure that area tightly.

That measurement should be your band size, or at the very least, your bandsize starting point.

I suppose that could be it, but on me it doesn't seem to be a wire width problem so much as a height-of-cups in that area problem.

The wires go plenty far around the side. It's just that the wires and cups stop too low on my body, so above them, the armpit flab/boob/whatever it is bulges out above. Does anyone know if bigger cups would solve this problem, or if they would just be too big everywhere else?

So if the 36DD was already too small for your breasts volume-wise, the space in the band was probably compensating for this. When you went down to a 32, you no longer had the extra band space to help compensate for the too-small cups. So it seems much smaller.

You should probably be a 32FF or 32G or...etc. What are your measurements?

I also really liked the LB bras until I figured out that they didn't come close to fitting me properly. I will still occasionally wear one (ill-fitting one) when I want that "molded plunge cleavage" look because those bras don't come in my actual size in any brand I have actually found.

I'm pretty sure that as far as UK-equivalent sizes go, LB goes up to the equivalent of the following UK sizes: 36E, 38-44G, 46E.

I'm sorry - I in no way meant to imply that a 27" underbust meant "twig." It does, however, mean that your ribcage is definitely on the small side, as many women don't even have a 27" waist (and most women's underbust measures larger than their waist).

There are definitely women with underbust measurements in the 20s who are not in any way skin-and-bones, but they are definitely smaller-boned or smaller-built than those women whose ribcages would measure well into the 30s even if they possessed very low bodyfat.

Historically, when the +4 or +5 method of measuring was an accurate way of getting your bandsize (because non-stretch materials were used in bra construction), a 32 band size WAS for very thin/small people. That would have been a 27-28 inch actual underbust. And a 30 band, which some stores also carried (thought admittedly more rarely) would have fit those with an actual underbust of 25-26 inches.

This is carried over in the way the general population believes that a 32 band is only for very small women, and a 30 band for the truly tiny. Historically this was true, and bra manufacturers (especially in the US) just kept making the same size ranges, even though they fit completely differently now with the new materials being used.

Most smaller women don't know that they can get anything smaller than a 32 (or maybe a 30 with searching) because they just aren't available in stores. If the smallest carried is a 32, and you are small, you will think that must be your size.

I wear a 38 band and am decidedly plus-sized in clothing. Yet I see women wearing 38s all the time in the real world who are size 6/8/10/12 in clothing. There is no way that is their true band size, but because no other combo in the limited range available at VS and the like fits them properly, they cram themselves into a 38 of the largest cup available (usually a D/DD/DDD).

So women don't know to ask for anything different, and stores sell plenty of 32-38 A-DDs, despite the fact that most women buying those sizes are not actually those sizes. And what incentive do the stores have to change?

Maybe the growing availability/knowledge of UK-sized bras will help push stores into it here. I certainly hope so!

Yeah, my bust is about 144cm. That's about 20cm larger than biubiu's largest size offered per their size chart, sigh. It looks like my waist would easily fit in their largest size, and possibly even the 2nd largest, but no way on the bust, I would think.

Then yeah, my hips and arms and shoulders would also be a problem. I can almost guarantee that those parts of the garment would also be too small. I need something that is cut to fit large me everywhere else, but fitted through my (proportionately) small(er) waist (and thighs, if it is a garment that includes covering the thighs). It's definitely not easy! I usually just end up with those body parts looking tented. Sigh.

I am very close to the same size as you, and regret to inform you that it's hard to find such a thing...I am forever questing for it myself.

I have an order in process from Ewa Michalak, which I am excited to try, as I have heard they are lower than most, but it isn't here yet, so I can't confirm that.

I bought a Panache Jasmine not long ago that I love in all ways except one - the center gore is ridiculously high as far as I am concerned, and starts showing if my top runs low at all in the deepest V part of a v-neck. (as an aside - does anyone reading know if they is a way to clip the center gore wires shorter without ruining the bra?)

However, other than the very center part of the gore wires in a very deep v-neck on the Jasmine, it works great and is lower elsewhere than most others I have tried. I do hesitate to wholeheartedly recommend though, because of the gore wire problem.

And I share your desire for more low-cut bras in this type of size, so will be watching this thread with interest - luck to both of us!

This is also entirely true, but I think before the OP does anything else, she needs to take accurate measurements so that she has a starting point that is reasonably close from which to work with and test different styles.

OP, I know SO many people who truly thought their 34DD fit them, and then turned out to be 32F or 30J or 30FF or (insert some other size here). You need measurements. If it turns out you are right on track for size, then try the wire style and breast shape suggestions. If not, get in the right size first.

Wearing a properly fitting band is going to be in some ways less "comfortable" than you are used to, if you have previously been wearing too-large bands, especially if they have been multiple sizes too large. You are (almost certainly) going to feel more pressure and confinement around your band than you are used to.

It happened to me as well, and I wondered if they were too tight. I found them barely wearable at first. But within a week or two, I adjusted to the new feeling and they were soooo much more comfortable than my old riding-up-my-back, boobs-falling-out-of-the-cups-all-over bras.

Slight indentations and redness and discomfort at first with the new fit are normal. Bruising or ongoing PAIN are not.

All that said, what are your measurements, bust and underbust? It is possible that you still are wearing too small a cup (even if it seems to fit compared to your old ones) which will also make the band feel too small/tight.

Yes, OP please look at the pic linked here by Kiirkas. Are you measuring your underbust or your actual waist? My waist is quite a few inches smaller than my underbust, as is true for many women, although certainly not all. For some, the waist is bigger. But rarely would your waist and underbust measurements be exactly the same.

That is a very sexy bra! My husband actually thinks almost every bra I wear is sexy- no worries about stone here ;) - it's just when I would do my crazy rigging-and-concealing-the-not-fitting-parts with the too-small bras, I could tell that that was his favorite look of all (as far as cleavage showing with clothes on goes).

Was hoping to recreate that in a bra that actually fits me, but it sounds as though it is not to be. I will hope that bra technology will increase someday to allow it. :)

Thanks - I actually have an order in process from Ewa right now (ordered a couple weeks ago). I am excited to see how that goes, but just from the pics I have seen in larger sizes, I'm not sure it will give me quite the look I am going for, but I am certainly excited anyway.

Still looking for other suggestions in addition of course - I swear, I have spent far too much on bras since finding this subreddit...